In emails with Jack Dongarra, the idea was suggested that the survey
of (essentially Fortran and C) open source linear algebra routines
could be enhanced with a companion page concerning open source tools
that wrap such programs and sometimes augment them. R
(www.r-project.org) I use regularly and have on occasion launched
Octave (www.gnu.org/octave) and SciLab. There are likely others (Sage?
Eigen?).

If there is interest in preparing a companion survey page to the one
reported (http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/la-sw.html), I
would be happy to act as editor e.g., set up a wiki on my server to
gather material and try to organize it, but like most of us I have
familiarity with only some of the tools.

I envisage (at least) two-way use: to inform LA developers of uses of
their programs and to assist "wrapper" developers to improve their
software by incorporating improved routines and calling them
appropriately. Perhaps some overview of the sort already exists, but a
quick search did not reveal one.

The Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
(RICAM) will be hosting the workshop on "Large-Scale Inverse Problems
and Applications in the Earth Sciences". This is the second workshop
in the "Special Semester on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy
and the Environment".

Organizers: M. Cullen, M. Freitag, S. Kindermann, H. Pikkarainen

Abstract: Practical problems in the earth sciences have a very large
number of degrees of freedom, however the measurements are limited and
noisy. They are usually ill-posed, and occur in data assimilation and
many other inverse problems in geophysics. The use of computer models
to allow the observations to be exploited is essential. This workshop
will examine the challenges that arise in doing this successfully.

Research contributions from the community are also welcomed; in
particular, we invite the following two types of submissions:

(i) contributed talks and posters
(ii) open problems

To encourage authors to submit cutting-edge work, the workshop will
offer a best paper award as recognition. We request submitters of open
problems to prepare a few slides that clearly present, motivate, and
explain an important open problem or concern.

Papers accepted in a Special Session have the same "rights" and follow
the same rules as those of "regular" type, i. e., they will appear in
the conference proceedings, will be elegible for the conference best
paper prize and could be selected to be part of one of the two Special
Issues that ICPRAM 2012 has.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission: October 24, 2011
Authors Notification: November 11, 2011
Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 25, 2011

The 4th ELGERSBURG SCHOOL on MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS THEORY will take
place in Elgersburg (Germany) from March 11 - 17, 2012.

The lecturers and their topics are
Arjan van der Schaft, "Hamiltonian Control Systems"
Mark Embree, "Pseudospectra and Nonnormal Dynamical Systems"

The school is addressed to postgraduate students or postdocs in
control, either in mathematics or engineering, and also to very good
undergraduates. We would be grateful if you could pass on this
information to any potential candidates.

The location has a capacity for 40 students. The cost for the hotel
including full board is EUR 510,- for a single and EUR 400,- for a
double room.

Due to the limited number of places there will be an application
procedure for participation at the school. Applicants are asked to
provide their CV and a letter of reference from their supervisor. The
deadline for applications is December 15, 2011. The organizers will
then rank the applications according to excellence and suitability.

Additionally, there are funds for travel support, accommodation and
subsistence for 15 participants.

Our email list is not complete, please feel free to pass this
information on to anybody who you think may be interested.

For further information please see
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/math/forschung/tagungen/elgersburg-schools/elgersb=
urgschool2012/

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case
studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers,
which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the
following, but not limited to, topic areas.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:
Abstracts should not exceed 400 words. Details of the submission are
available on the conference web site. Papers presented at the
conference will be considered for peer-reviewed publication in a
special issue of the journal Optimization Methods and Software.

SESSION ORGANIZATION:
Proposals of organizing sessions are welcome and can be sent to
Luis Nunes Vicente by email lnv<at>mat.uc.pt

DATES AND DEADLINES:
Abstract submissions: January 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2012
Early registration: March 31, 2012

The Householder Symposium XIX on Numerical Linear Algebra will be held
in Spa, Belgium, 8-13 June 2014.

http://sites.uclouvain.be/HHXIX/

This symposium is the nineteenth in a series, previously called the
Gatlinburg Symposia, and will be hosted by the Universite catholique
de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

The Symposium is very informal, with the intermingling of young and
established researchers a priority. Participants are expected to
attend the entire meeting. The fifteenth Householder Award for the
best thesis in numerical linear algebra since 1 January 2011 will be
presented.

Attendance at the meeting is by invitation only. Applications will be
solicited from researchers in numerical linear algebra, matrix theory,
and related areas such as optimization, differential equations, signal
processing, and control. Each attendee will be given the opportunity
to present a talk or a poster. Some talks will be plenary lectures,
while others will be shorter presentations arranged in parallel
sessions.

The application deadline will be some time in Fall 2013. It is
expected that partial support will be available for some students,
early career participants, and participants from countries with
limited resources.

The Householder Symposium takes place in cooperation with the Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the SIAM Activity
Group on Linear Algebra.

TENURE-TRACK POSITION:
The Department of Mathematics invites applications for a Tenure-Track
Assistant Professor position in Applied Mathematics. UC Santa Barbara
offers a unique environment where innovative, interdisciplinary, and
foundational research is conducted in a collegial atmosphere. We are
looking for candidates who have demonstrated exceptional promise
through novel research with strong potential connections to the
natural sciences and engineering, or who have promise to interact with
colleagues from Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.
Demonstrated research excellence and potential to become an effective
teacher are required. Candidates must possess a Ph.D. by September
2012.

To apply for this position, applicants must submit a curriculum vita,
statement of research, statement of teaching philosophy, & the
American Mathematical Society cover sheet (available online at
http://www.ams.org ), & arrange for four letters of reference to be
sent (at least one of which is directed towards teaching). Materials
should be submitted electronically via http://www.mathjobs.org -TENURE
TRACK LINK - VISITING PROFESSOR LINK . Applications received on or
before November 15, 2011 will be given full consideration. Questions
can be emailed to recruitment@math.ucsb.edu .

The department is especially interested in candidates who can
contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community
through research, teaching and service. UCSB is an Equal Opportunity/
Affirmative Action Employer.

We are excited to be hiring two new instructorship postdoc positions
this year. The are 2-3 year appointments intended for promising
Ph.D. graduates with strong interests both in research related to
applied and computational mathematics, and in teaching. An Instructor
should have a research interest in these areas in common with one or
more faculty members of the Department. Current related research
areas are in numerical analysis, scientific computing, applied
mathematics, computational number theory, cryptography, complex
systems, stochastic processes, network theory, statistical learning,
and mathematical biology.

The full information is at
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/activities/recruiting/

The pertinent information is: application deadline Jan 5th,
2012. Salary $4950 per month. Teaching is 3 10-week courses per year
(sometimes these can be grouped into 2 quarters allowing the other 2
quarters for research), expected to include a statistics
course. Please feel free to contact faculty with whom you have
research connections with any questions.

The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is
pleased to announce the inaugural Neukom Fellows competition. These
postdoc positions are explicitly interdisciplinary, for recent Ph.D.s
working in computational areas that cut across traditional
disciplinary boundaries.

In brief, they are 2- to 3-year positions, mentored by faculty in two
departments at Dartmouth College, with a salary of $60k (in
2012-2013), and a teaching requirement of only one seminar course per
year. For full information and application details, see:

We are looking for talented PhD students interested in
high-performance parallel computing to join our Institute of
Computational Science at the University of Lugano (Switzerland). This
position are part of an ongoing research effort to develop a code
generation and autotuning framework for parallel iterative stencil
computations on modern microarchitectures that is used for structured
grid computations in computational science.

Requirements

Our group is especially interested in highly motivated students who
might have experience in

* a strong technical background, particularly in math (discrete and
continuous) and some depth in at least one systems area
(architecture, compilers, programming languages, operating systems);

Our research group has strong expertise in high-performance computing,
scientific computing with multicore and accelerators, in particular
emerging many-core architectures, and combinatorial scientific
computing. You will be working in a highly stimulating international
research environment within an interdisciplinary team of the
University of Lugano and the Swiss Center of Supercomputing
(CSCS). The salary offered is according to the guidelines of the
SNF. The position is available immediately, starting date upon
agreement. Application Deadline

November 15, 2011, yet applications will be accepted until the
positions are filled. Please submit your application electronically in
PDF format, including copies of degrees, grades, CV and the names of
two references to:

Prof. Olaf Schenk
Institute of Computational Science
University of Lugano, Switzerland
Email until December 2011: olaf.schenk@unibas.ch
Email as of January 2012: olaf.schenk@usi.ch